On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Dave Miner wrote:
> Shawn Walker wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Just thought I'd share my recent experience with the new installer (b70).
>>
>> Personally, I never had any problems using the old one, but the new one does
>> look much better.
>>
>> Things that I thought were great:
>> * Relatively few questions asked
>> * Sane slice size defaults for whole disk option (In my case, 232GiB
>> partition was split into four slices, 15GiB for root, 15GiB for second_root,
>> 3.1GiB for swap, 198GiB for /export/home for a system with 2GiB of memory)
>> * Automatic creation of second root for LU
>> * Overall Look and Feel
>> * "Felt" snappier than the old installer
>> * After first boot, I installed the skge driver for my onboard gigabit
>> ethernet, and nwam picked up everything via dhcp on the next reboot
>>
>
> Thanks, Shawn!
>
>> Things I suspect are known issues:
>> * Help is not yet complete (such as going to the help menu in the debug
>> terminal)
>
> Since we've got an extremely minimal Gnome environment, that doesn't
> surprise me.
>
>> * Warnings in debug terminal window from the window manager about the
>> terminal setting min size of 1 for window, but also setting not resizeable
>
> Known, I believe.
>
>> * System has unqualified hostname warnings on first boot (is this related to
>> the installer not having sane initial defaults?)
>>
>
> You mean sendmail's whining? There are various opinions on what ought
> to be done about that; mine is that sendmail ought to be disabled by
> default (desktop systems have no need of it that I can see), or that it
+1 - disabled by default
> should send those messages to its logfile rather than the console.
>
>> Suggestions:
>> * Display the log in a monospaced font when the user clicks the 'show log'
>> (don't remember what it is labeled exactly) button at the end of installation
>
> I'll let Frank respond to this...
>
>>
>> Questions:
>> * Is there a way to run the detection tool from the installer via a simple
>> button? (I may be an idiot and have just overlooked this)
>
> Nope, because it's not there at all. Future enhancement.
>
> Dave
>
Regards,
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